These are some resources and tools useful in using blended and online learning.
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A Short Guide to Netiquette - a useful set of rules/suggestions to make online discourse flow smoothly, and the page links to a self-test. Try it out! (You are welcome to send your participants to this page or mount it on your own Web space if you retain the copyright/authorship notices.)
Tapped In - a free online campus where educators may claim their own virtual office. A good place to meet students for "office hours" through live text chat. TI runs many events and is the location of regular meetings for interest groups of K-12 and adult professionals. (You must be signed in and click >Enable Chat to use the text chat. Pull down the >Actions menu to expand the chat field.)
Moodle - a free, opensource course management system comparable to Blackboard/WebCT. You may run Moodle on your own server, or rent space from Moodle.com. There are many help forums and visual examples at the Moodle site to get you started, as well as Moodle for Language Learning, which is run by volunteers to assist other teachers.
Please feel free to add to these by clicking on >Edit This Page and add on at the bottom. (You must be a member and signed in to edit.)
A Short Guide to Netiquette - a useful set of rules/suggestions to make online discourse flow smoothly, and the page links to a self-test. Try it out! (You are welcome to send your participants to this page or mount it on your own Web space if you retain the copyright/authorship notices.)
Tapped In - a free online campus where educators may claim their own virtual office. A good place to meet students for "office hours" through live text chat. TI runs many events and is the location of regular meetings for interest groups of K-12 and adult professionals. (You must be signed in and click >Enable Chat to use the text chat. Pull down the >Actions menu to expand the chat field.)
For help and directions on using tapped in, see http://alothman-b.com/evonline_tappedin_directions.htm.
Moodle - a free, opensource course management system comparable to Blackboard/WebCT. You may run Moodle on your own server, or rent space from Moodle.com. There are many help forums and visual examples at the Moodle site to get you started, as well as Moodle for Language Learning, which is run by volunteers to assist other teachers.